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PM Pham Minh Chinh has demanded favourable mechanisms be issued to facilitate public - private partnership in infrastructure building, so as to boost the development of the Van Phong Economic Zone.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Saturday reported an additional 454,212 Covid-19 infections including 225,693 cases confirmed in Hanoi, raising the country's patient tally to over 5.89 million.

The World Bank (WB) on March 11 released its brief updating Vietnam’s economic development in March, stating that the economy continues to show resilience and is recovering although downside risks have heightened.

Dozens of old trees in a forest in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have been illegally cut down.

The People’s Committee of Son Tay Town has planned to open a new pedestrian zone around Son Tay old fortress citadel, the fourth of this kind in Ha Noi during the upcoming Reunification Day (April 30) holiday to boost tourism.

Forty-seven children were "killed or maimed" in Yemen's civil war in January and February following a surge in violence, the United Nations children's fund said on Saturday.

A five-year project which aims at shifting Vietnam's private sector toward sustainable energy use has been officially launched in southern Tây Ninh City.

Two repatriation flights for Vietnamese people in Ukraine are expected to land in Hanoi on March 13.

The nation resolutely opposes and asks Taiwan to cancel its live-fire exercises in the waters around Ba Binh island belonging to Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and not to repeat similar actions in the future.

The central province of Nghe An has approved two VND7.8 trillion (USD336.21 million) solar energy projects.

Vaccinated foreign entrants to Republic of Korea will be exempted from the seven-day self-quarantine later this month, the health ministry said Friday.

The Government of Viet Nam confirms that the interventions and support from the United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA in the period 2017 – 2021 substantially contributed to Viet Nam’s efforts to fulfil the transformative promise of “Leaving No

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Friday reported an additional 188,440 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's patient tally to over 5,44 million.

The central province of Quang Nam faced two consecutive earthquakes within 20 minutes early this morning, March 11.

Petroleum prices in Vietnam rose from 3 pm on Friday, marking the seventh consecutive increase since December 25, 2021.

China reported its highest daily total of coronavirus cases in two years on Friday as authorities in Shanghai and other major cities stepped up targeted lockdowns and testing to halt the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

The 12th and 13th trains for Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro project in HCM City arrived at Khanh Hoi Port on Friday morning after nine days departing Japan's Kudamatsu Port.

Many petrol stations in Hanoi were jammed on Thursday evening as crowds rushed to buy fuel due to an imminent price increase.

The Ministry of Finance said it has completed a draft resolution on the adjustment of environmental protection tax rates for gasoline, oil, and grease, which is set to become effective from April 1.